by Dr. Hallie Duke | Mar 4, 2019 | Productivity
I’ve made the case that meeting productivity will be enhanced by defining objectives for your meetings objective driven meetings. Now it’s time to show you how to write them. There’s a big difference between saying what you’ll talk about at a meeting (an...
by Dr. Hallie Duke | Feb 4, 2019 | Outcomes Improved
Imagine regularly going to team meetings that seem like a pivot point; meetings where work gets done and, when they’re over, everyone knows exactly what they will do next to make progress. You can have more productive meetings like this by building your agenda around...
by Dr. Hallie Duke | Dec 6, 2018 | Problem Solving
When fixing a problem project, the last thing you want to do is choose the right strategies. Wait, what? Did you read that right? Yes! Of course, I don’t mean that you never want to choose the perfect strategies. I mean that you need to wait and choose them last,...
by Dr. Hallie Duke | Dec 4, 2018 | Problem Solving
If you’ve got a problem project where everyone seems to be working in different directions, there could be few things going wrong. The first thing to ensure is that the desired outcome of the project is clearly stated. (See my article Fixing Problem Projects –...
by Dr. Hallie Duke | Dec 3, 2018 | Problem Solving
If you have ever heard yourself asking this question: “What the (bleep) is going on? Since the kick off on this project, everyone seems to be working in different directions. Didn’t we all agree on what we were going to do?” Well, maybe … and maybe not. If the team...